RE: Casting and Optimization Flags

["Hillel (Sabba) Markowitz" <sabbahem at bcpl dot net>]

-------------------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Colin Law <c dot law at elec dot gla dot ac dot uk>
     To: Rob Shearer <Rob dot Shearer at networkinference dot com>, eljay at 
adobe dot com
     Cc: gcc-help at gcc dot gnu dot org
     Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 13:39:38 +0000
     Subject: Re: Casting and Optimization Flags
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        casting floats to integers does not round; it truncates

Thanks for the replies. Why was this behaviour more (only!) obvious when I 
used the compiler optimization flags? Had I not tried this, I would be quite 
oblivious to the problem, which could have been very
difficult to track down futher down the line.

Thanks for the bit twiddling hack link Eljay, some of these will do exactly 
what I'm looking for.

~Colin.
---------------------- End Original Message --------------------------------

On some platforms there is a difference in accuracy between the memory and the 
register arithmetic for floating point numbers.  When you ran without 
optimization, the values were stored in memory along the way.  Under 
optimization, they happened to jus be kept in registers with enough of a 
difference to trigger the error that you saw.

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Hillel (Sabba) Markowitz - sabbahem@bcpl.net